Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
